[News] [Rival] Microsoft Zune Failed, Windows Mobile Just Renamed

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Microsoft's Zune Misstep Marks the Gadget Road Not Taken
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| The Zune's failure sent the company down a
| very different path than Apple's. Jobs & Co.
| were able to use the iPod's success to launch
| the iPhone, and now the iPad. Microsoft's
| mobile OS has struggled against the mobile
| operating system Apple uses, probably because
| Redmond never had a cell phone of its own to
| carry Windows Mobile as a follow-on product
| to the Zune.
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/microsofts-zune-misstep-marks-the-gadget-road-not-taken/19424133/
Microsoft Kills Windows Phone 7's Series
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| Microsoft is not very confident about the
| coolness of the name of its newest operating
| system for mobile phones named Windows Phone
| 7 Series. The coolest name would have been
| WP7S! But Microsoft has decided to chop the
| word 'series' from the 'Windows Phone 7
| Series'. The phone will now be called Windows
| Phone 7.
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http://www.katonda.com/blog/961/microsoft-kills-windows-phone-7-series
Recent:
Report: Microsoft Sued Over Zune Tagging
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=1746800&spid=24698
A Software Bug may Kill You
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| In 1991, during the Gulf war, American
| Patriot missile was deployed to combat
| Iraqi scud missile. In one of the incident,
| Patriot missile missed the Scud and that
| resulted the death of 28 American soldiers
| and 100 others got injured. There was an
| arithmetic error during calculation which
| resulted inaccurate calculation since Boot.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft’s Zune player stopped working on
| December 31, 2008 because of a simple
| software bug. The software was written in
| such a way that it would never terminate if
| the year is leap year and the total number
| of days is 366.
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http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-software-bug-may-kill-you/
Microsoft investigating disappearing music from Zune Pass
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| According to a post on the Zune Forums, owners
| of the Zune Pass are having a bit of trouble
| accessing the music they're paying for with
| their subscription, as first reported by
| Engadget. In less than two weeks, the thread
| in question has passed 50 replies as users
| complain and list what they can no longer
| access: specific songs, entire albums, or even
| everything produced by an artist.
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/microsoft-investigating-disappearing-music-from-zune-pass.ars
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